On the cover this month
Florence Rodway (1881-1971)
Portrait ofVera Cosgrove 1905
pastel chalk on canvas; 97 x 51 cm
From the Pictorial Collection
Reproduced with the kind permission of Mrs G.S. Keane
Tasmanian-born artist Florence Rodway studied in Hobart and Sydney before being awarded a four-year scholarship to the Royal Academy schools in London. On her return to Australia she worked in Sydney from 1906 to 1922, and in Hobart from 1922. She later painted commissioned portraits with her daughter, Susanne, in Melbourne. Known as a pastellist and portraitist, Rodway received many commissions including official portraits of Dame Nellie Melba, Henry Lawson, J.F. Archibald, Julian Ashton and William Charles Wentworth. Her abiliry to reveal a sitter's character was distinctive. This striking portrait was executed as a commission on the occasion of Vera Cosgrove's 21st birthday. The artist and sitter were friends, and Rodway was a lifelong friend of the Cosgrove family. The National Library acquired the portrait in June 1994.
January 1997 Volume VII Number 4
THE CULT OF OZ POP
Richard Stone highlights the challenges for the National Library in
collecting and preserving Australian popular culture
AN INTRIGUING DISCOVERY
Bibliophile Jeff Brownrigg's latest find, an annotated 1924 edition of songs translated from German by Sir Robert Garran, illuminates another facet of an exceptional Australian
PARTNERS IN PROGRESS: LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Papua New Guinea's National Librarian, Daniel Paraide, discusses the work
FROM BEIJING TO THE FUTURE
As President of the Australian Society of Archivists, Kathryn Dan reports on the thirteenth Inrernational Congress on Archives held in Beijing
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: NEWS & NOTES
PERSUASION
Michael Richards reflects on the National Library's new exhibition For King and Country: Australia 's World War I Recruitment Campaigns
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
NLA EXHIBITIONS
At the National Portrait Gallery Decade of Flair: The Seventies looks back on the 1970s in Australia
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